‘we are about to witness the first steps of
the dismantling of our dreams of an independent future for all disabled people.
The question we need to ask is how did this happen?’
Mike
Oliver, Welfare and
the wisdom of the past,
Disability Now, February 2013
The
brilliance of the social model of disability
was always also its inherent weakness: its simplicity.
It was and
is too easily read as suggesting that all of the factors excluding disabled
people from equal participation in societ...
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